In the past few years, we have seen many fine companies end up in ruins and watched record numbers
of senior executives go to jail. And we will surely hear of more investigations, more prison
terms, and more damaged ...

Health care reform was the dominant issue on the political agenda during the early 1990s. Few issues
during the decade persisted on the public agenda for so long. Why did it resonate so loudly? And why did
it emerge then, ...

As Hurricanes Katrina, Rita, and Wilma successively lashed the Gulf Coast starting in late August 2005,
nature’s fury exposed serious weaknesses in the United States’s emergency response capabilities. These
problems were ...

This paper integrates the largely independent literatures on networks and teams. Our objective is twofold: (1) To understand what constitutes an effective organizational network when much of the work of the organization ...

The challenges of leadership in grassroots social-change organizations (SCOs) are daunting: the task is large, but funding is limited and uneven, and there is often a tension between financial stability and mission ...

This national study was conducted in an effort to directly examine the relations between Israel’s Jewish and Arab citizens. According to Israel’s 2007 census, the country has a Jewish majority of almost 80 percent and an ...

Background
China’s economic and political importance has captured the world’s attention. China has become increasingly
integrated into the global economy. Between 2000 and 2003, it accounted for one-third of global
economic ...

For much of our history, civic associations have served as schools of democracy for the millions of
Americans to whom they taught leadership skills, democratic governance and public engagement. Civic
associations rooted ...

It is hard to imagine a society functioning in the absence of trust. From the smallest incident—crossing
the street when the light is green—to the most consequential events—a government fulfilling its pledge
to pay Social ...

When asked to think about a hostile environment for women in the workplace, many of us would first envision overt instances of sexual harassment or blatant employment discrimination. These associations are certainly not ...

Even within teams of peers, certain individuals have more power than others. Individual members may
have essential skills and experience, networks outside the team, or status within the organization that
give them more ...

Multiple factors can be offered to explain the Labour victory and Conservative defeat in the 2001 British general election. Here we pursue one of the most interesting explanations offered by a modified Downsian model of ...

Managers have formal and official supervisory authority within an organizational hierarchy. As a result, a perennial concern of managers is employee mobility, i.e., the turnover of workers, and the implication of worker ...

Authenticity has become a central concept in leadership studies, but the question
of how followers assess the authenticity of their political leaders has not been
addressed. With few exceptions, the literature on ...

This working paper examines some of the key issues and challenges confronting some of the most significant actors in American political affairs—superintendents of education—and explores how they can drive meaningful ...

All studies of American civic life identify the years between 1890 and 1940 as the high tide of civic engagement: the period in which voluntary associations and other formal organizations, for profit and nonprofit, ...

"Now, gods, stand up for bastards!" No, this is not the prayer of the New York litigator; it is the battle cry of Edmund, bastard son of the Earl of Gloucester and one of the great early modern theorists of political ...

Based on literature and expert interviews, we developed the Crisis Leader Efficacy in Assessing and Deciding scale (C-LEAD) to capture the efficacy of leaders to assess information and make decisions in a public health and ...

The acute threat of internationally driven and homeland-directed terrorism has changed the rules and expectations for governmental action, interaction, and willpower. Unprecedented coordination of resources, information, ...